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...design, it is the brain child of one man: Vice President Clar ence ("Kelly") Johnson, the same Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineer who designed the famed, high-altitude U-2 ten years ago. Under orders from the Eisenhower Administration in 1959, Kelly Johnson and his team got busy in the "Skunk Works"-a secret hangar area at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant where U-2 plans also took shape. The first A11 took to the air last fall...
...Government people wanted to discuss a secret airplane project, so secret that not even General Curtis LeMay, then boss of the Strategic Air Command, knew about it. That night, Kelly Johnson, head of the "Skunk Works"-Lockheed's supersecret project-development division-began clearing out a hangar. "I got 23 fellows," says Johnson, "and we went to work. We didn't even give it a project name; that's a better kind of security. Later, the fellows began calling it 'the Angel...
President Eisenhower, however, was willing to take the risk. In 1953 the CIA ordered designs for special camera equipment and sensing devices. By the time Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works were brought into the project, the U.S. had almost everything it needed-except the airplane itself. Development of that plane was left up to Johnson. Recalls he: "Nobody ever tried to tell us what to do. We knew the problem. I knew the kind of wings I wanted...
...also takes men like Kelly Johnson. Last week the Air Force Association presented the boss of the Skunk Works with a trophy for designing and developing the U-2-and "thus providing the free world with one of its most valuable instruments in the defense of freedom...
...Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made him a literary lion in the '20s. "His new book," Frost wrote waspishly, "proves my original suspicion, not that Masters is just dead but that he was never very much alive." H. L. Mencken he dismissed as "that non-fur-bearing skunk...